{"id":91803,"date":"2024-09-17T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T09:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=91803"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T09:03:02","slug":"mogale-city-exposed-for-releasing-raw-sewage-into-rivers-and-residential-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/mogale-city-exposed-for-releasing-raw-sewage-into-rivers-and-residential-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogale City exposed for releasing raw sewage into rivers and residential areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sameera Casmod | sameerac@radioislam.co.za<\/a>
\n17 September 2024 | 11:04 a.m. SAST
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Image: Engineering and Technology<\/p><\/div>\n

Mogale City has been exposed in a News24 <\/em>report for deliberately releasing thousands of litres of raw sewage into rivers and residential areas.<\/p>\n

Critical water sources, including the Vaal, Crocodile and Bloubankspruit rivers, as well as Hartbeespoort Dam have been affected. Additionally, water in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site has been badly polluted, which has severely impacted tourism in the area.<\/p>\n

The problem is mainly due to the collapse of water treatment works in Mogale City, including the Pervy Steward Water Treatment Works, which has been out of order for over two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sewage infrastructure in Mogale has collapsed. And they\u2019re just not spending any money doing the necessary repairs to keep the infrastructure operational,\u201d Trevor Brough, director of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site Association said in an interview on Radio Islam International this morning.<\/p>\n

Consequently, raw sewage flows into the waterways and through the Cradle of Humankind.<\/p>\n

The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSRI) have classified rivers in the area as seriously and critically modified ecosystems due to the high levels of contamination.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rivers are in all essence dead rivers. There\u2019s no life except for the nasty pathogens in that water,\u201d Brough said.<\/p>\n

Produce on surrounding farms are contaminated when they are irrigated with polluted water.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring August, a farmer in the area, who was a Global Gap farmer, had been forced to close because they found E.Coli on his lettuce, which means he had to retrench [all] 80 staff,\u201d Brough said.<\/p>\n

Some of the polluted water also ends up in groundwater, which many people in rural areas depend on for drinking and irrigation.<\/p>\n

The pollution has also severely affected tourism is the area and has far-reaching implications. Brough traces the flow of the polluted water from waterways in The Cradle of Humankind into the Crocodile River, which ends up in the Hartbeespoort Dam. From there, the river runs all the way to the Botswana border, where it becomes the Limpopo River and eventually ends up in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlong this river route, there are a substantial number of irrigation farmers who are also using water out the rivers to irrigate their crops, which all of us end up buying in the various shops. It\u2019s a disaster of national proportions,\u201d Brough said.<\/p>\n

The solution is for relevant authorities to follow the constitutional obligation to repair the wastewater treatment facilities.<\/p>\n

Listen <\/strong>to the full interview<\/a> on Sabaahul Muslim with Moulana Sulaimaan Ravat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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